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The Cyprus Problem
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 754.... in a bi-communal state, with the necessary checks and balances and guarantees. Unfortunately, this political partnership and the internationally sanctioned regime lasted only three years.
The Greek Cypriots continued unlawfully to campaign against a bi-communal independent state and on 21 December 1963 put into effect their plan for a general onslaught on the Turkish Cypriot community. The aim was to abrogate the constitution of the country through the use of force and bring about ENOSIS (annexation of Cyprus to Greece). Turkish Cypriot members of the joint Parliament and the .....
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Evangilista Torricelli
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 487.... the Grand Duke of Tuscany attempted to raise water to a height of forty feet or more, but found that thirty-two feet was the limit to which it would rise in the suction pump. Strange enough, Galileo, who knew all about the weight of the air, had recourse to the old theory that "nature abhors a vacuum", modifying the law by stating that the "horror" extended only to about thirty-two feet. Torricelli at once conceived the correct explanation. He tried the experiment with quicksilver, a liquid fourteen times as heavy as water, expecting that the column would counterbalance the .....
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The Shocks Of European Colonization
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 333.... who had a deficient immune
system in contrast to those of Europeans. Not only did these outrages
happen to these two cultures, but this happened to the North American
Indians. Englishman pushed Indians out of their homes and set up their own
society.
The Africans brought over from Africa did not do so great either.
Portuguese pioneered the market for African slave trade and Africans have
suffered ever since. Due to an inadequate immune system, many Africans
were killed. By 1619, the first africans stepped foot on America. By 1672,
slave trading had gone out of cont .....
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The Middle East: A Great Deal Of Variation?
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 586.... region remains the most dangerous source of terrorist challenges to the wider international community, accounting for over 21% of all international terrorist incidents worldwide in 1992, and over 23% in 1993.
There are four basic motivations for terrorism in the Middle East.
1. Bitter opposition by Rejections of Palestinian groups to the agreement between Mr. Arafat and the Israeli government. These groups see Arafat as a traitor who has betrayed the cause of Palestinian self-determination.
2. In almost every Moslem country there are groups of extreme Islamic fundamentalists .....
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Hitler - The Life Story
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 1957.... the next year, 1907 he tried again and was very sure of success. To his surprise he failed again. In fact the Dean of the academy was not very impressed with his performance, and gave him a really hard time and said to him "You will never be painter." The rejection really crushed him as he now reached a dead end. He could not apply to the school of architecture as he had no high-school diploma. During the next 35 years of his live the young man never forgot the rejection he received in the dean's office that day. Many Historians like to speculate what would have happened IF.... .....
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Articles Of Confederation
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 767.... No executive or judicial branches were provided
for. Congress was charged with responsibility for
conducting foreign relations, declaring war or peace,
maintaining an army and navy, settling boundary disputes,
establishing and maintaining a postal service, and various
lesser functions. Some of these responsibilities were
shared with the states, and in one way or another Congress
was dependent upon the cooperation of the states for
carrying out any of them.
Four visible weaknesses of the articles, apart from
those of organization, made it .....
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Hee
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 2027.... to fend for themselves when Stephen’s father Donald, a Merchant Marine captain, left one day, to go the store to buy a pack of cigarettes, and never returned. His fathers leaving had a big indirect impact on King’s life. In the autobiographical work Danse Macabre, Stephen King recalls how his family life was altered: “After my father took off, my mother, struggled, and then landed on her feet.” My brother and I didn’t see a great deal of her over the next nine years. She worked a succession of continuous low paying jobs.” Stephen’s first outlooks on life were influenced by h .....
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The Holocaust
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 898.... David
In November of 1938 all synagogues in Germany were set on fire, windows were smashed and thousands of Jews were arrested. "Night of Broken Glass: was a signal to the Jews in Germany and Austria to leave as soon as possible.
World War II began on September 1939.
By September 1941 the Jews of German were forced to wear badges or armbands marked with a yellow star.
Concentration camps were one of the most tragic things about the Holocaust. Many horrible things happened at these camps usually involved death. One of the things that happened was the Nazi soldiers told .....
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